Hardcover Fiction

by Francoise Sagan · E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc

by Robert Ruark · Doubleday

by John Phillips Marquand · Little, Brown and Company

by Patrick Dennis · Vanguard Press

by Mac Hyman · Random House, Inc

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown and Company

Now a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, The Good Shepherd is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.

by Gretchen Finletter · Harper and Brothers

by Edward L. Beach · Henry Holt and Company

An American equivalent of Das Boot, this gripping, bestselling novel of submarine warfare inspired a well-known Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable. Set in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tension-filled story focuses o

by Paul Hyde Bonner · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Inglis Clark Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

Action, adventure, and romance, with Flora Macdonald as the central character.

by Robert Wilder · G. P. Putnam's Sons

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

by Clemence Dane · W. W. Norton and Company

by Hamilton Basso · Doubleday and Co., Inc

by Joyce Cary · Harper

by Elizabeth Gray Vining · J. B. Lippincott and Co

A fictionalized version of an event which actually occurred in Philadelphia as the British army was about to seize the city in the fall of 1777. Approximately 20 prominent citizens (mostly Quakers) who, for religious reasons, refused to support either side, were arrested on the presumption that "if you're not for us, you're against us." After a month in which they were imprisoned at Philadelphia's Masonic Hall, they were exiled for five months to Winchester, VA where two died. The author has added a fictional character to the group -- a 24-year-old Quaker, Caleb Middleton, who, ironically, had longed to enlist in the Continental Army, but did not in deference to his father's religious feelings.